Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Future of Social Sciences
Year: 2024
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The Feminized Side of the Colombian Agrarian Reform of 1961
Monica Moreno, Alejandra Chamorro
ABSTRACT:
Recently Agrarian Reform has once again been on the Colombian political agenda, which has made evident the need to analyze the few past experiences. We argue that in the Agrarian Reform of 1961 there was a gender division in which rural women were exclusively included in reproductive issues. This finding corresponds with analyzes that have shown how limited this Agrarian Reform was in terms of redistribution of land for women. The division of the Agrarian Reform according to gender can be seen in the efforts made by the IAS (Institute of Social Administration), for the participation of State officials who could teach courses on home economics with an emphasis on nutrition, thinking about rural women from their roles as mothers and wives and in the conception, on the contrary, of rural men as the main responsible and beneficiary par excellence of productive initiatives. The analysis focuses on concrete practices that account for the dynamics of implementation of the Reform. In particular, two projects are monitored: “The itinerant course of the Agrarian Reform” and “El proyecto de los llanos” that were designed and launched at the time to generate prestige for the Reform. Thus, we realize a process in which differences became inequalities within the framework of a Reform that reproduced gender stereotypes. The research is based mainly on the review of the IAS file of the Escuela Superior de Administración Pública and is complemented with interviews with beneficiaries of the Reform at the time.
keywords: Agrarian reform, gender division, gender stereotypes, land redistribution, recognition